Title 15, Chapter 15:12 Mental Health Act
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Zimbabwe
31 December 1996
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Government of Zimbabwe
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An act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the care, detention and aftercareof persons who are mentally disordered or intellectually handicapped, whether
for the purposes of treatment or otherwise; to provide for the establishment of various
boards and the functions of such boards; to repeal the Mental Health Act [Chapter
15:06]; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.
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